Last weekend, we went mushroom hunting for the first time, near Nashville, Ind. We'd love to tell you that this is our bounty, but the truth is, we came up empty handed. The only mushrooms we found were inedible, and looked nothing like the conical, honeycomb-like morels we were hunting. We had a good time, nevertheless, and returned to Chicago to get our morels the old fashioned way – for $48 a pound at the farmer's market.

We plan to prepare them very simply – with butter and maybe a little flour – so we can savor all the great mushroom flavor.

The market was also teeming with green goodness, and our bag was nearly overflowing with asparagus, sorrel, sunflower sprouts, French breakfast radishes, green garlic, chive blossoms and fiddlehead ferns. Our favorite season in Chicago has officially begun.

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Faith is the executive editor of The Kitchn and the author of three cookbooks. They include The Kitchn Cookbook, coauthored with Sara Kate Gillingham, as well as Bakeless Sweets. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Mike.